So for Christmas I got Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. Such a fun game. But now I realized why the Wii remotes have the strap on them for your wrist.

On first thought, it's so when you play something like bowling or baseball, the remote doesn't slide from your grip and break your TV screen. Nope. After many frustrating stars in Mario Galaxy, I've concluded that the wrist strap is primarily so when you get super pissed off from dying with 99 out of 100 coins you can't throw your fragile controller into the wall.

Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure Nintendo could've made more money since people would have to buy replacements. But no, Nintendo always looks out for the little guy. I love it.

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With the new addition of the Wii to my household, as well as countless hours of playing Final Fantasy 12, I haven't had very much time to do much of anything lately. I have been getting a lot better at foosball, but that's beside the point.

I've seen a lot of movies since my last slew of glimpse reviews, but I don't feel like looking them up.

Tonight I caught a bit of the third Lord of the Rings movie, and I noticed this before, but didn't mention it: so Frodo gets the mythril shirt, which supposedly stops anything from piercing it (swords, etc). But then he gets stung by that enormous spider's stinger right in his stomach towards the end. Plothole? I think so. Oh well, still a good flick.

Oh, but for anyone who cares, I finally fixed my desktop computer, so I can leave the laptop for traveling purposes from now on. Also, with the new year, a few changes are already coming. I'm excited, but as always, slightly nervous and overly nostalgic. But I don't think much of that will show up here (except this post, obviously).

Because I feel like making this post longer, here are some 2006 awards arbitrarily handed out off the top of my head:

Biggest Joke - 'Crash' winning Best Picture
Best Beverage - Red Bull (Starbuck's double shots - runner-up)
Hottest Female - Carmen Electra (she was on some Taco Bell commercial earlier)
Hottest Male - Leonardo DiCaprio ('The Departed,' come on)
Best Sporting Event - World Cup, obviously
Best TV Show - Scrubs
Slang of the Year - Tie: "Uggo" and "Re-re"
Playa of the Year - Me, for keeping this thing updated (I said I would, but didn't actually think I would)
Best Investment - Netflix
Best Post - This one. Clueless reference? Idiotic college girl? Me at the library? The only thing missing is a picture, but unfortunately I didn't have my espionage camera glasses on at the time.
Biggest Waste of Time - Sitting through 'The Fountain'
Most Thankful For - Not paying to see 'The Fountain'
Idiot of the Year - Paris Hilton x 9203802947693576
Movie of the Year - 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit' (ok, maybe not, but I just love that dog)

Alright, that's it for now. Happy New Year kids!

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Lack of posts because I haven't really been doing anything, just playing old RPGs over again (Final Fantasy V, Wild ARMs 2). That, and slowly knocking off the days until my birthday.

The other night I was bored and watched 'Just Like Heaven.' What a terrible movie. The only good line was towards the end, when Mark Ruffalo's friend says something like, "Someday, trust me, I'm gonna need help moving a body. When that day comes, I don't wanna hear any shit from you." Other than that, there's just an onslaught of plotholes and terrible dialogue. I generally like Mark Ruffalo, but Reese Witherspoon... sigh. She played the most unbelievable doctor in the history of both doctors and acting.

Rating: 2.5/10

However, 'Mary Poppins' was on TV the other day and I hadn't seen it in years. Now I remember why I loved that movie so much. A definite 9/10

Oh, and the 'Nip/Tuck' season(series, maybe?) finale wasn't very good at all, but did have a few good moments. The show has gone downhill since season 2, but for some reason I just can't stop watching it. This season gets a very solid rating of a 6.

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Lately I've been playing a lot of Kingdom Hearts 2, which is a PlayStation 2 game centering around Disney worlds/characters (Disney partnered with Squaresoft, AKA makers of the Final Fantasy games, AKA best games ever). The first KH was amazing and the second one is very addicting, but that's beside the point.

So playing the game just makes me more pissed off at the Disney "vault," which is defined as them selectively releasing certain movies for a short amount of time, then vaulting them up for years. Some examples include Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and The Little Mermaid. I've been wanting to buy, well, all of them, and today I was at Target. I saw a big poster above the DVDs for The Little Mermaid. It was next to a Prince poster (ugh), but didn't say anything like "music from the movie," so I was like "SCORE!"

But guess what? It was no where to be found. I searched every damn inch of their terrible DVD selection, and couldn't find it. Or the original Sabrina, which they had plenty of a few weeks ago. Sigh. Such is the life of a DVD buying addict.

Edit: Ok, either I'm a retard, or Target needs to properly label their items (and by "items" I mean "posters"). I checked their website, which says the DVD will be available Oct. 3rd. I guess this explains why I couldn't find it. Thank you for letting me know while I was there, Target.

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